I don’t mean to get political, but….

I want to keep this blog free of politics. This is a grammar blog, not a political blog. If you want to learn more about my views on politics, look me up on Facebook or read some of katesadventures.com.

However, this picture was too good to resist:

We’ve got quotation marks. This guy is clearly a Catholic. You can’t forget about original sin! Those fetuses aren’t really innocent!

The best thing about this picture is that it could easily be changed with punctuation marks:

STOP THE DEMOCRATS! WAR AGAINST INNOCENT UNBORN CHILDREN!!!!

I think I like that much better.

From the emails I’ve received from you, I know that you feel the same way: because of this guy’s bad grammar, I seriously doubt his credibility. It has nothing to do with his views; I say this from a politically neutral position.

To all political protesters: If you want people to take you seriously, learn to use grammar correctly on your signs. That’s the first of many steps.

I’m enjoying the potential punctuation suggestions, but I still trying to figure out the author’s meaning. Why the quotation marks around innocent? Is this sarcasm? Are the unborn children NOT innocent? And is war the best choice of words? Politics aside, what exactly is the war this man wants stopped? He doesn’t even suggest an action for his readers. Maybe his sign should say “Stop the war on unborn children; vote Republican” (I was going to say “Stop the war on unborn children; kill a Democrat” but not even bad grammar guy would write such a thing on a sign. Or would he?

The fact that “innocent” is in quotation marks leads you to believe that the children are not innocent. Putting the word in quotation marks is akin to saying, “they say they’re innocent, but we know they’re really not.” You in(sin)uate as much in your comment. Anyway, great photo.